01 · The plant
Herbivory damage
What fraction of leaf area was removed by insects?
- Status
- Specified, unbuilt
- Field
- Empty — nobody is doing this
- Who wants it
- Entomology, global change biology.
Why it matters
Insect pressure over a century, measurable against warming. The studies that have done this counted damage by eye on a few thousand sheets. There are millions.
What it needs
Damage-versus-tear discrimination. A hole from a beetle and a hole from a press are different objects.
State of the art
Published at small scale, entirely manual. No model at collection scale.
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Pathogen and gall signature →